Doh... yeah that's the color I get when I've applied a empty CGFX shader on an object. Well, then it might just be that it doesn't work with 2008. I'm sure I've tried other CGFX shaders in 2008 though. Did you ever get any other CGFX-shader working in 2008? Did you try opening the ones bundled with Maya? In the presets…
Hey Hijak, thanks for your feedback. Cool to know about the xmsl being able to load in Max. I had one user try loading the .cgfx in max but with no success. Was exported with Custom CGFX profile. Regarding reducing amount of maps by storing b/w mask in alphas. I have been thinking about this but I'm not convinced that this…
man, I just opened up the shader and it looks really great, only problem is when I turn on textures im just getting a flat black color on my model. I have textures assigned to my model and a light set up and its just not working. Im using a mac with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT card, and Brice's shader worked just fine so i'm…